AmerCinema of the US-Mex Bord

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American Cinema of the US-Mexico Border This course will examine the U.S.-Mexico border as critical space of inquiry by focusing on the cinematic and televisual representations of the border in Hollywood, independent, and Chicana/Chicano cinema. We will discuss how the border is constructed cinematically and explore the historical, social , and cultural representations of the border. We will view these depictions through various genres to ground our discussion in order to critically analyze how these visual rhetorics shape the way we think about the border, borderland culture, and the people who inhabit it.